After decades of operating off-the-backfoot and protecting and conserving nature perceived as under threat, conservationists are becoming proactive and creative in the face of habitat loss, agricultural intensification and climate change. Beyond Conservation offers a revolutionary agenda for both managing existing wildlands in Britain and for expanding... more...

In The lazy project manager, Peter Taylor illustrates how we can achieve more without expending more time and energy. Welcome to the home of ?productive laziness? and a more focused approach to project management. Here, we are able to exercise our efforts where they really matter instead of rushing round involving ourselves in unimportant, non-critical... more...

The Lazy Winner is for all those who simply want to do more with less effort and succeed in their working and personal lives without rushing around like headless chickens or putting in 100 hour weeks. We are all too good to put our careers and work?life balance at risk by working too hard! The Lazy Winner builds on the concept of ?productive laziness?,... more...

This work follows the journey Peter Taylor undertook during the summer of 2007 (and a bit of 2009), when he set out to achieve a long held ambition and see a baseball game in every major league ballpark, a minor league game in those states without a major league franchise, plus the All-Star game and the post-season. His adventures along the way include... more...

Former gypsy prize-fighter, Henry Torrance, is about to be released from prison where he has been serving time for killing fellow bare-knuckle fighter Bull Jackson. He's determined to get his life on track and settle down with his girlfriend Mary - but certain people from his past aren't ready to let him move on just yet. The criminal Jackson family... more...

Former gypsy prize-fighter Henry Torrance is about to be released from prison where he has been serving time for killing fellow bare-knuckle fighter Bull Jackson. He's determined to get his life on track and settle down with his girlfriend Mary—but certain people from his past aren't ready to let him move on just yet. The criminal Jackson family are... more...

In The lazy project manager, Peter Taylor illustrates how we can achieve more without expending more time and energy. Welcome to the home of productive laziness and a more focused approach to project management. Here, we are able to exercise our efforts where they really matter instead of rushing round involving ourselves in unimportant,... more...

The 36 Stratagems is a Chinese essay used to illustrate a series of stratagems used in politics and in war, as well as in civilian life, often through unorthodox means. Approximately 300 years ago an unknown scholar compiled the stratagems, a strangely seductive meditation on deception. The stratagems are ordered in categories according to your current... more...